Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

” reads the analysis published by the expert. ” The malware was first spotted in February 2018 by researchers from Proofpoint when the bot was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. .” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. The BlueKeep scanner implemented in the WatchBog scans the Internet for vulnerable systems and submits the RC$-encrypted list of RDP hosts, to servers controlled by its operators.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2018

” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro. “Underminer delivers a bootkit that infects the system’s boot sectors as well as a cryptocurrency-mining malware named Hidden Mellifera.” CVE-2016-0189 , a memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) patched in May 2016.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Thanks to behavioral analysis, such systems make it possible to detect previously unknown malware samples.”. The main functionality of the malware is to encrypt data on the computer and make ransom demands. RTM first appeared in 2016 and attracted attention as its C&C was a LiveJournal (Russian social networking service) page.

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Brandeis Records Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

He argues that, looking back from the year 2050, the first few decades of the digital revolution that we’ve experienced as a sort of Phase I will seem marginal when compared with what’s coming in Phase II after 2016. With information lifecycle analysis increasingly covered by AI machines like Watson, where will we come in, or not come in?

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 2, 2021 If you're not familiar with hashing, how it's not the same as encryption and how it can still leave passwords vulnerable, read this primer from September first. In total, the file has 43,015 unique email addresses (including mine) which is a far cry less than the total row count.

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